Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 7th January 2022Case name: 2022_01_07-WM007
Situation: 12 travellers gone missing on their journey from Algeria towards Spain.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean
Summary: On Friday the 7th of January 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 12 travellers in distress in the Western Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left from close to Oran, on the 3rd of January in the evening, heading towards Almeria on a blue fiber glass boat. We were not able to reach the travellers, but immediately relayed the information we had to the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo. However, we were not able to get any information about rescue operations matching this case. Over the coming days, we stayed in touch with relatives who were getting increasingly worried and reached out to several authorities, trying to establish what had happened to the travellers. We were never able to get a final confirmation, but learned from Spanish media that there had been several shipwrecks in the area of boats that could match the description we had been given. We therefore fear the worst. We are still trying to find out what happened to these travellers, and will update this report if we have news.
Tweets:
https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1479850118123819012?cxt=HHwWiMC4ufD1vYkpAAAA
https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1480211112675225600
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